Instance Level Public IP in Azure

Today I was in Calgary Alberta, delivering an Azure for IT professionals as part of a series of events we are delivering across the country.

One of the discussion we had was about IP addresses in Azure. More to the point we were discussing “Instance Level Public IP” (ILPIP). An ILPIP formally known as a Public IP (PIP) is an address that you can assign directly to your VM, rather than to the cloud service that your VM or role instance reside in. I wrote about this almost a year ago. Today will look at setting those up in the preview portal.

The ILPIP doesn’t take the place of the VIP (Virtual IP) that is assigned to your cloud service. It’s an additional IP address that can be used to connect directly to your VM. You would assign a ILPIP to a VM if for some reason you needed to connect directly to the VM, instead of using the cloud service VIP:<port number> or endpoints.

By having an ILPIP on your VM, the traffic on just about any port will reach your VM without the need for an endpoint to receive traffic.

Assign the ILPIP

Assigning the ILPIP at the creation of the VM is very simple. You need to logon the preview portal create the virtual machine.